Poll: 71% of Palestinians Support October 7 Massacre, Majority Wants Hamas Returned to Power in Gaza
“52% of respondents in Gaza said they hoped to see Hamas return to rule the enclave, (…). Among those in the West Bank, 64% think Hamas should run postwar Gaza.”
More than five months after Hamas-led savage marauders slaughtered more than 1200 Israeli men, women and children, support for the October 7 massacre is at an all-time high among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
“Despite the ensuing war, the humanitarian crisis and the atrocities committed against Israelis, the vast majority of Palestinians in the West Bank (71 percent) and the Gaza Strip (71 percent) still viewed the October 7 “offensive”,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported Thursday citing a poll released by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR).
"Nonmilatarized" is dangerous fantasy. 70% of Palestinians still support the October 7 attack by Hamas. https://t.co/cucaHkbdCd https://t.co/9j0OpKs9NS pic.twitter.com/kBQgiFUjCe
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) March 21, 2024
With the Biden White House arm-twisting Israel into abandoning the planned offensive against the Hamas top leadership hiding in Rafah, the majority of Palestinian — both in Gaza and the West Bank — were hoping for a Hamas ‘victory.’
The Israeli TV channel noted that the latest poll figures “indicated an increased 56 percent responded that Hamas would win the war and even more (59 percent) preferred that it would continue controlling Gaza. Although there was a considerable split between respondents in the West Bank (64 percent) and in the Strip (52 percent).”
If Hamas menages to secure a long-term ceasefire without losing its leadership and releasing Israeli hostages, the Palestinians will likely see this as win for the terrorist group.
The Times of Israel reported key findings of the poll:
A poll released Wednesday found declining levels of support for Hamas in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank since December, while a growing number of Gazans view the terror group’s October 7 onslaught favorably.
The poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, which showed a wide array of sometimes contradictory stances, also found a dramatic rise in support for a two-state solution among Gazans, along with a dip among Palestinians in both the West Bank and the Strip in those who think independence should be achieved through armed struggle.
According to the survey, which sampled 1,580 Palestinian adults in early March, 71 percent of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank believe that the October 7 massacres in which in terrorists killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped 253 others was “correct,” versus 72% who said so when the organization’s previous poll was published in December.
In the West Bank, the 71% figure is down from 82% in December who agreed with the decision to launch the onslaught. In Gaza, however, the number was a significant increase from the 57% who backed the move three months earlier.
According to the PCPSR, the growing support for the brutal assault was likely tied to the belief that it had brought long-sought attention to the Palestinian struggle for statehood, and did not necessarily reflect support for the slaughter, abduction, rape and mutilation unleashed by Hamas on Israeli civilians.
The poll found the number of Palestinians who admit Hamas committed war crimes fell from 10% to 5%.
Palestinian support for the mass slaughter, rape, burning, and kidnapping of Jews is at 71%.
There is no peace to be had. https://t.co/ioFb7ykexa
— Jonathan Greenberg (@JGreenbergSez) March 20, 2024
55% of Gazans, 64% West Bank Palestinians want Hamas’s return to power after the war
There was a slight dip in the popularity for Hamas after an initial boost after the mass-killing, rape and kidnapping of Israelis on October 7, but its favorability number remain comparatively high.
Estimated 55 percent of Gazans and 64 percent of West Bank Palestinians wanted to see Hamas returned to power in the enclave after the war, the Israeli news website further reported:
Although support for Hamas as a political party rose among Gazans from 22% in September to 42% in December, the survey found it slipped back somewhat to 34% in March. In the West Bank, where support for Hamas had jumped from 12% to 44% after the attack, it fell back to 35% in March.
While support for PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party returned to prewar levels of 25% in Gaza, it continued to plummet in the West Bank, hitting 12%, down from 26% in September.
Asked who they would hope to see in charge of the Gaza Strip at the end of Israel’s war with Hamas, 52% of respondents in Gaza said they hoped to see Hamas return to rule the enclave, up from 38% in December. Among those in the West Bank, 64% think Hamas should run postwar Gaza, down from 75% in December.
Twenty-one percent of respondents in Gaza said they hoped the Palestinian Authority would return to control the Strip but only under the leadership of someone other than Abbas, whom an overwhelming majority of Palestinians want to see resign.
Support for ‘Palestinian State’ surges as Biden WH pushed for statehood
The same poll showed growing support for a ‘Palestinian State,’ with 62 percent of Gazans supporting the option. The desire for statehood surges amid reports that the Biden administration is working behind the scenes with some Arab States in order to reward Palestinians with a separate state in the heels of the October 7 massacre.
“The Biden administration and a small group of Middle East partners are rushing to complete a detailed, comprehensive plan for long-term peace between Israel and Palestinians, including a firm timeline for the establishment of a Palestinian state,” The Washington Post reported mid-February.
The Israeli government has rejected any such move. “Now is not the time to be speaking about gifts for the Palestinian people,” Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office declared in statement responding to President Biden’s plans.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
According to recent polling, the proportion of Gazans who support a two-state solution has nearly doubled since December, from 35% to 62%.
The polling, conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR), was conducted between March 5 and 10 in the West Bank and areas of the Gaza Strip where there was “no ongoing daily fighting.”
The PCPSR conducted previous surveys in September and December 2023, during which the change in support for a two-state solution by Gazans was minimal, 34% to 35%, respectively.
Compared to Gaza, support for a two-state solution in the West Bank barely grew, from 30% in Septemeber 2023 to 33% by December and 34% by March.
The PCPSR links support for a two-state solution to the feasibility of the solution and the chances of a Palestinian state.
The data also showed a clear drop in support for armed resistance as the best means of achieving a Palestinian State from its peak in December.
In December, support for armed resistance across the Palestinian Territories was 63%, 68% in the West Bank and 56% in the Gaza Strip.
The latest polling showed support for armed resistance at 46% across the Palestinian Territories, 51% in the West Bank, and 39% in the Gaza Strip.
Although both showed a drop in support for armed resistance, the West Bank and Gaza Strip diverged on the alternative to armed resistance.
The poll figures once against confirm widespread support for Hamas’s genocidal ideology among Palestinians. While Hamas led the October 7 attacks, its terrorist forces were accompanied by ordinary Gazans as they went murdering, torturing and raping their way across the communities in southern Israel.
Earlier this month, a United Nations team that investigated the crimes committed on October 7, acknowledged that Gaza ‘civilians’ joined Palestinian terrorists in committing horrific atrocities on Israelis.
Those who breached the “Gaza perimeter fence at multiple points” on October 7 included Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists “other armed elements and armed and unarmed civilians,” the UN report admitted.
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This is why there are NO innocent victims in Gaza.
They are fundamentally broken, as far as I am concerned.
I will rephrase this way:
This is why so many of us say that they ALL need to go.
Depends on how you define “go”
Yeah. I would define “go” as go to Egypt and Jordan and other Arab states so those corrupt, violent dictatorships can welcome home the human disease they’ve created.
72 Virgin Street
Express bus, please.
So, 48% of respondents in Gaza said they do NOT want Hamas to return to rule the enclave, So kill them all. Is that your final solution? Have you designated the concentration camps yet? The gas chambers?
Yep. Kill them all.
I love trolling you. I look forward to your nasty comments, and hope that my comments cause you anxiety.
Is it working?
Rashida Tlaib—is that you?
October 7 2023 was the equivalent of December 7 1941 for the Israeli nation. It initiated a total war, and the Israelis have responded accordingly. In total war there are no civilians, and they are dying much the same as the citizens of Dresden and Hiroshima did. The goal for the Allies was unconditional surrender along with the complete destruction of the leadership responsible for the aggression. That worked for us, and will work for them. However, we followed up with the Marshall Plan which over the next generation rebuilt the society of our former mortal enemies into strong allies. Perhaps Israel will do the same, if they want to end this awful cycle once and for all.
JR would complain that our retaliation against the Japanese was racism, and that the United States forced Japan to attack Pearl Harbor.
Israel would be morons for doing the same so long as Islam runs the place.
I fear that a significant amount of the Democrat party including elected officials and administration employees also support Hamas. A smaller number but still substantial probably support the Oct 7 attack as “resistance against the settlers/occupiers”.
Weak people always seem to be able to rationalize evil actions when they are part of a mob or movement.
My take on the results of these polls is that Israel has little choice but to eradicate Hamas and occupy Gaza, then start excising the radical Islamists in the West Bank. That is the path to the most peaceful future for Israel.
God bless Israel and its people.
They are who we thought they were: Inbred, murderous savages.
I keep typing things that I dont want to happen …. self censoring myself.
there is no 2 state solution that will ensure the safety of Israeli.
Unless the other state is Jewish, too.
No there isn’t. Israel has tried thru out it’s history to work something out with the blood thirsty jew hating islamists but the demand of the islamic demons is always the same, telling Israel that Jews must leave or die. islam is the crux of the problem and will remain the crux of the problem, a problem that has now infected western nations.
Naturally, the communists support the “Palestinians” just like they supported the Nazis until Germany attacked the worker’s paradise in 1941.
Why my first thought was that they good load up every single plane they have with as many bombs as it will carry and not stop dropping them until there’s nothing but rubble. Then shoot everything that crawls out of that pile.
By all means. That is the final solution. No need to build gas chambers.
The purveyor of fake quotes also white knights for actual genocidal maniacs. What do you think occurred during WW2, JR?
Operation Linebacker III
I suggest during Ramadan
I wud like to let them experience the Dresden effect. let the very air catch fire .
Chuck Schumer(D) should go on a fact finding tour of Gaza. No doubt Gazans would welcome this fine Jewish man as their greatest ally in USA.
Yes or no?
And while Chucky is there, why not have him stop at one of Gaza’s fair hospitals and take a tour of their basements?
One really has to wonder about some of these State Dept and National Security folks who are supposed to be knowledgeable about these sorts of matters
Do they remember at all that WWII hostilities lasted roughly 6 years give or take. But the occupation and reconstruction of Germany was decades – Same with Imperial Japan.
The American Civil War from Fort Sumter until Appomattox was about 4-1/2 years, right? And then the Federal Occupation and Reconstruction troops stayed on in the former Confederacy for twice that long.
Many other examples
Take the Vietnam War. After North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam, did anybody suggest that the North Vietnamese should withdraw from South Vietnam? And return to North Vietnam? On”the day after”?
What — are Jews supposed to just chalk it up? Just another day at the office , and just another mass slaughter, no problemo
Does anybody remember what the British did after the American Revolution? I remember: The Brit’s all got on boats and departed North America
And the war before that one — The French & Indian War —> As I recall, the French lost, and then they all left North America, permanently.
It seems to me something really sick must be going on at the highest levels of US government — just look at Afghanistan, look at the open borders, look at our inflation rate and gas prices, and now this EV mandates?? And siding with “Rape is Resistance” troglodytes?? It’s crazy these people from Blinken to Schumer to Christopher Wray to The Annointed One to those 50 CIA guys to a few others: it seems they’ve all been bought. And they’re throwing Israel under the bus. Soon it’ll be Guam and Taiwan and Philippines and Japan
Crazy
I question whether there is even one full set of testicles in all of Washington DC?
Awful.
“One really has to wonder about some of these State Dept and National Security folks who are supposed to be knowledgeable about these sorts of matters.”
It’s not knowledge; it’s circumstances. Those prior leaders fates were more closely tied to the events they orchestrate. They’re fine; they’ve been fine; they believe they’ll be fine. The only thing that changes is the stature of their seat at the banquet table.
Current “leaders” aren’t touched by the direct consequences of war or terrorism — or anything else they champion or administer, from economic policy, thru climate change, to vax mandate programs and lock-downs.
Kamala says that the palis are just misunderstood and want peace and a box lunch?
Noooo!
They want pieces of Jews for lunch.
😏
It’s called brainwashing.
Hamas’s goal is street cred as the baddest terror group going, to get $ support from bad state actors.
They need a population on their side.
Which is why Biden, Blinken and Schumer need to butt out and let the Israelis finish the job
BiBi should accelerate IDF’s pace of capture and kill. The best way for this war to end is with Hamas’ complete and unconditional surrender
All the more reason that victory should be pursued swiftly and ruthlessly instead of playing the left’s ridiculous game of long drawn out wars that give leftists time to wring their hands about “innocent civilians”—like those in Gaza who want Hamas terrorists to remain in power. The only way to peace is to give terrorists and their supporters the peace of the grave,
“…long drawn out wars…”
Israel is conducting a war, for real, which we haven’t seen in the West in a long time. It’s making many people squeamish.
People watching international events get confused because we do lots of operations with war gear that aren’t actually wars. And weasel around calling things what is convenient, not what they are, especially calling non-wars, “wars”, and not calling actual wars, “wars.”
Israel is conducting an old-school war on Hamas, which administers Gaza, responding to the casus belli of the Oct 7th assault, conducted by that same Hamas, out of territory they administer. It’s a war. Similarly, what’s going on in Ukraine is a war, not a “special military operation”, a situation, a crisis, or etc. One country — Russia — invaded another country — Ukraine — on two fronts, occupying territory since annexed. The invaders have since imposed blockades, and consistently targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure.
That is exactly why the administration should pull its head out and recognize that a two-state solution is not a solution. If the majority of Palestinians, including those in the West Bank, want Hamas to be in charge, then the region will return to a “River to the Sea” situation.
A modest proposal: Chuck-y of The Tribe takes an un-escorted walking tour of the land between the river and the sea, for a year after the “cease fire.”
Unwilling to make that commitment? No cease fire plan that suffices? No plan on offer that he’d go walkabout under?
Chuck-y lacks the courage of his convictions. Must be a day ending in “y”.
Of course they do. Islam is a cancer everywhere.
All this poll indicates is that sympathy for Gaza “civilians” is largely misplaced since 71% love Hamas—and by extension are 100% fine with Jew killing. Another reasonable conclusion is that modern war needs to be conducted quickly and ruthlessly (shorter time frame, less hand wringing about “innocent” civilians). To do otherwise simply gives evil jihadis more time to mount their PR campaign to marshal world wimp opinion.